Steve Nash deferred a lot, floated around the perimeter off the ball and generally didn’t impact the game as Kobe had the ball in his hands a lot. Dwight Howard couldn’t hit a free throw and looked a little slowed by his back. The Lakers bench and defensive rotations were unimpressive.

It’s one game. Remember the first game of the Heat’s big-three era? They lost by 8 to the Boston Celtics, but it didn’t feel that close at all. LeBron, Wade and Bosh looked confused playing together.

The older Lakers with their shorter contracts don’t have a couple of years to figure it out like the Heat, but it’s not going to happen overnight.

Smart Lakers watchers realized it. Lakers radio play-by-play man John Ireland was doing his local radio show and predicted the Lakers would start the season 13-6 and had caller after caller (not to mention his radio co-host Mychal Thompson) come on and say “no, they are going to be 18-2.” Because that’s how fans view the world.

Steve Nash just played the worst game of his professional career because he isn’t allowed to push the tempo, dribble penetrate, or run pick & rolls with Howard. It’s absurd. Mike Brown knows defense but he is clueless on offense. You can’t force 10+ year veterans to change for your system. RUN THE PICK AND ROLL YOU DOLT!!

“Smart Lakers watchers realized it. Lakers radio play-by-play man John Ireland was doing his local radio show and predicted the Lakers would start the season 13-6 and had caller after caller (not to mention his radio co-host Mychal Thompson) come on and say “no, they are going to be 18-2.” Because that’s how fans view the world.”

Exactly. Plenty of people here said, “STOP SAYING just because the Heat took awhile to gel, the Lakers will also take time to gel. The Lakers roster doesn’t have guys with overlapping play-styles like Wade and LeBron and Bosh. Nash and Kobe will get it working immediately.”

Those guys apparently stopped commenting.

And again – Miami losing to a Boston team with 4 All-Stars is less embarrassing than the Lakers losing to a Mavericks team that was missing its only All-Star (Dirk Nowitzki) gave Eddy Curry big minutes.

Mark Cuban can go suck on it. Every Laker fan is rooting for his Mavs team to suck and be the worst team in the league. Hey Mark suck on this, the Lakers have 16 championships and your worthless Dallas team has only 1. Go Lakers!!!